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    What Is the Probability of the Man Catching the Bus?

    Interesting question about probability. Someone could help me to find the answer ? "One bus arrives in the bus station between [12:58 am, 1:02 pm] and wait 15 seconds before to go out. One man arrives in the station bus between [12:59 am, 1:01 pm] and wait 30 seconds before to take a tax...
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    What is the Conditional Probability of Finding a Book in a Specific Box?

    Somebody could help me to find out the answer of the interesting question about conditional probability ? "You are moving to other apartment and you need to find your probability book. It is inside of one box. There are n boxes to all. The probability of the book is inside of the box i is Pi...
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    Understanding Distribution Functions: Proving and Verifying Their Properties

    Could someone help me. I don't able to explain if is FG is a distribution fuction: Show that if F and G are distribution functions and 0 \leq \lambda \leq 1 then \lambda.F + (1 - \lambda).G is a distribution function. Is the product F.G a distribution function?
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    What is the Distribution Function for Y = aX + b?

    Could someone help me to find the probability distribution de Y below: A random variable X has distribution function F. What's the distribution function of Y = a.X + b, where a and b are constants?
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    Representing the Probability Distribution of XY in a Graph

    thanks ------------------------ Thank you, for help. One doubt, that I have, consists of knowing the best way to represent the probability distribution on this situation: for a graph or correspondence between points ?
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    Representing the Probability Distribution of XY in a Graph

    Could someone help me to find the probability distribution de XY below ? Take \Omega to be a set of 5 real numbers. Define a probability measure and a random variable X on it which takes the values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with probability \frac{1}{10}, \frac{1}{10}, \frac{1}{5}, \frac{1}{5}...
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    What Is the Probability a Driver Returns to Their Original Lane After 4 Minutes?

    How reach the right answer ? ------------------------------ This question is in a book, that giving the answers. The right answers are: from an outside lane: 3/8; from an inside lane: 11/16.
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    Question about pairs of shoes

    ------------------------ I wrote wrong, not is 0 \choose 1, the correct is 1 \choose 0. I repaired it.
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    What Is the Probability of Correctly Guessing the Colors of Cards?

    Hello, I tried to model and answer this question, but I didn't get success. Could someone help me ? You are told that of the four cards face down on the table, two are red and two are black. If you guess all four at random, what is the probability that you get 0, 2, 4 right ?
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    Question About Cards: Find Probability of Guessing 0, 2, or 4 Right

    Hello, I tried to model and answer this question, but I didn't get success. Could someone help me ? You are told that of the four cards face down on the table, two are red and two are black. If you guess all four at random, what is the probability that you get 0, 2, 4 right ?
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    What Is the Probability a Driver Returns to Their Original Lane After 4 Minutes?

    Hello, I tried to model and answer this question, but I didn't get success. Could someone help me ? Question: A California driver decides that he must switch lanes every minute to get ahead. If he is on 4-lane divided highway and does this at random, what is the probability that he is back...
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    Question about pairs of shoes

    I tryed to do this question of many ways, but I couldn't reach the answer. Could someone help me ? "Four shoes are taken at random from five differents pairs. What is the probability that there is at least one pair among them" ? The answer to this question is below, but I don't know how I...
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    Exploring the Possibilities of Coin Combinations: Counting Without Making Change

    Thanks Thanks, I understood and I could response this question!
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    Exploring the Possibilities of Coin Combinations: Counting Without Making Change

    I didn't understand yet ---------------- I am trying, but I still don't obtaining the answer to part (b). Do you know how to do this ?
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